Third Session – We delve deeper into the flying iceberg and disturbingly find child souls trapped in the form of trees. Old school dungeoning proceeds, with monsters, traps, puzzles, inscriptions, weird terrain, and of course a load-bearing boss.
But first we all glory in our copies of the DCC rulebook – it had been out of print for a little while and finally a new batch dropped.
I missed last session but made this one. The fire magic the locals gave us was a huge help, and I enjoyed shooting flaming arrows into everything – which is foreshadowing for Hemp’s later character arc!
When we kill the boss the iceberg starts to fall apart. This is no time to screw around; I remember a Basic D&D adventure where this happened and if you paused one round to loot, you died. We had to spend a bunch of Luck to get away – the wizards could just zoom off but we meat-bags had to do it the hard way.
Apparently this was the DCC 2013 holiday module “The Old God’s Return” which accounts for the Festivus-ness of it all.
The rest of the session is advancement, both plot and character – Old Man Fish gets the ability to heal from the village priest, and Podrick decides to become a Knight of Lushnia (which the rest of us refer to as the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes since their heraldic sign is a water buffalo), which will also become a long term plot thread. We decide to go to a nearby tentacle cult pit that locals get carried off to.
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